All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer.
Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing.
A good horse should be seldom spurred.
The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir.
He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.
Prayer: the key of the day and the lock of the night.
First get an absolute conquest over thyself, and then thou wilt easily govern thy wife.
A man is not good or bad for one action.
Be the business never so painful, you may have it done for money.
Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear.
Better a tooth out than always aching.
Despair gives courage to a coward.
He that travels much knows much.
A wise man turns chance into good fortune.
Great hopes make great men.
Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved.
Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.
Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.
If you have one true friend you have more than your share.
There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.
Health is not valued till sickness comes.
Care and diligence bring luck.